Contemporary Issues

They are in the forefront of not just the Islamic world, but the entire world including the West. What was the place of women -- who have always been at the center of all religions, political movements and rules placed by philosophies?

Muhammad Akram Nadwi, who published a forty-volume biographical dictionary of women muhaddithat (scholars of hadith) gave a speech about the role of women in Islamic civilization in Istanbul on March 13, Saturday.